I've just started working with the SDK, following the Programming Tutorial sample for Extending the Windows Home Server Console (
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb425868.aspx).
I built the .dll and copied it into my server's C:\Program Files\Windows Home Server\ directory as instructed. The tutorial then says to restart the Windows Home Server Console, after which the newly-added console tab should have been visible in the console.
My interpretation of "restarting the Windows Home Server Console" was to click the X and shut down the console session (in the Vista system that I was using to do my development), and then to restart the console on that PC and log back in to the console. When I did that, my newly-programmed tab was not visible in the console.
I later shut down and restarted the WHS PC, and after it was online, I started the console from my Vista PC, logged in, and saw that the newly-programmed tab was now visible in the console.
Have I misunderstood what is necessary to do in order to have the .dll recognized by the console? Do I need to shut down some console service on the Server itself and restart it, instead of shutting down the console 'terminal service' on a client machine and then restarting it on that client? Or something else?
